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Putrajaya 'Fun' Run (8K)

Saturday 26th May. I participated in the Standard Chartered 8k 'Fun' Run in conjunction with the Malaysian Youth day. Woke up quite early that morning and had to disturb Nadia from her sleep as I needed her moral support (and photos near the finishing line :P). It's a shame Nadia never got that photo of me crossing the finishing line as she was standing on the other side where people who did 5k/3k was ending their run :S

It was a great not to mention NEW experience for me! As written in the previous post, the last time I did any kind of 'official' running was probably back in secondary school where we pretty much forced to run for the school's cross country.

Anyhow I have to thank mostly my friends (especially Nasa) and my wife who got me into this. Below are some photos we took after I managed to complete the run in 56mins. Looking forward to the next run!

Random photo that Nadia took whilst waiting for to end the run

4th time using the shoes

The #1 supporter

Bumped into her friend, a hardcore runner!

Bumped into my SAS school mates

PETRONAS peeps

The finishing line

 

Running and Endomondo

Shahiburi! It has been a while since I last wrote an entry. Just returned from Japan and had a wonderful trip with Nadia. Anyhow I just finished running and thought I might as well blog whilst cooling down. I hate running, I really hate it. I find it boring and could not bring much excitement to me as much as....Capoeira?

Although I hate running, I have to run for health. As weight gain is associated with higher tendency of gout attacks, activities such as running ought to help me to reduce gout attacks. The only reason why I'm running more than 30 minutes is because I signed down for a couple of running events (2 to be precise- thx to peer pressure from my officemate lol). They are Okay.., one is an 8K 'fun run' whilst the other is a '10K leisure run' for the upcoming Std Chartered Marathon.(Seriously 'fun' and 'leisure'??)

Up till now I only managed to find time for two practice sessions....and the results were identical, abput 54 min for 6.7K. What bothers me now is the blister I had twice on the side of my right foot thanks to the ergonomic design of Nike Lunarglide 3...Maybe I need to get their anti-blister socks as well. Damn Nike!

Anyhow, Melvin one of my office mates suggested Endomondo to track your fitness activities. I supposed the apps is similar to Nike+ on the iPhone. Now that I know I can 6.7K, I'm thinking of changing the route...say from Setiawangsa to KLCC. That's about 6-7K (obviously need to take the LRT and cab back home :P). So if you are up for crazy running stuff, Endomondo is good for you. It tracks your time, distance, altitude, lap time and many more. OR if you are a very busy person and really2 can't be bothered to exercise, get a PB from my wife :P.

La'er

 

Capoeira ya ya - Capoeira yo yo

Showing the basic of  'Queda De Rins' to Azalia.

It has been just more than a year since I fixed my ACL and I'm happy to announce that I am able to participate back in Capoeira!! What I have done for this year is to gather friends (& family) who are interested to train together on weekends (morning). We have so far did 3 classes and looking forward for more fun through out the year!!

Capoeira as many people know is a mixture of martial arts, music and dance originated from Brasil during the Portuguese occupation of the country. A martial-art that was once banned in the country has become part of their identity and culture especially in certain parts of the country (such as Bahia).

The 'training' that I conduct with my friends currently is to help them grasp the basic of Capoeira.In general there are loads of Capoeira Groups worldwide with their own grading system, unique sequências and to a certain extent lack of standardization by governing bodies; quite similar to the world of Silat (compare with the likes of WTF for TaeKwonDo). Unlike Silat, Capoeristas around the world acknowledge the 2 predominant styles of playing the 'game', the slower tempo Capoeira Angola and the faster beat Capoeira Regional.

I personally got hooked to this martial arts since 2005 during my university's freshers' fair. Back then there were other activities that caught my attention such as air gliding, air soft and paintball. Capoeira seems to be the best option as it was only £3 per class :P. Being a black-belt TaeKwonDo myself, I was struggling to cope with the intensity of the training and opt to do Capoeira through out my uni life.

If you just recently started Capoeira, check out the links below on basic moves and most importantly check out YouTube and attend classes + roda! Salve!!

Basic

WIKI

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The girls trying not to kill each other after our training ended

Reduce Reuse and RECYCLE

Good day everybody, let us recycle!

Even in the mid-90s beck when I was in primary school Malaysian government has done their part to encourage recycling (I remember seeing adverts on the tele and colourful bins around the school compound). More stressed were given when I was in Wales for my pre-university and luckily when I was studying for my undergraduate, I have one of my housemates who was very particular in recycling!(thank you Emily Reed-plus she supports Green party).

Thanks to the awareness, I try to make it a habit now in my house to recycle almost anything that can be recycled other than food (which Ems will force us to put into her compost bin back in those uni days).

Recycling in KL can be easier at some part of the city than others. Unfortunately, the municipal council where I live in has not introduced any scheme/direction yet for residents to separate their garbage. Luckily there is a recycling centre just about 5 mins away from where I live.

Reuse. Some of the departmental stores in KL (Carrefour especially) will offer their empty boxes up for reusing so you do not need to use/buy their plastic bags. Quite similar to Lidl in the UK. Of course there ara many other ways to reuse that we already know and I do not have to bore you with that.

Reduce. Malaysia imposes the no plastic bag day every Saturday. This effort forcefully reduces the amount of plastic bags consumer would use from grocery stores etc. Good job but please don't stop there Malaysia!

So before thinking of buying a new item or throwing your garbage away; remember Jack Johnson's song Reduceeeeee Reuseeee and Recycleee!

Please go HERE for recycling centre near KL.

Clean up the bottles before storing them in your store room to ensure you won't convert your store room into a huge garbage room.

And to ensure you do not mess around with your wife's car

Drop them to your nearest recycling centre

Good job!! here's RM1.60 for your effort. Add another RM1.40 and send your car for a quick wash

Boxes at Carrefour/Ikea that can be used to carry your purchase items. 

Bachelor meal -cili padi 'spaghetti' olio with chicken breast

Hello everybody and welcome!!

I started 'cooking' back in primary school, when I was about 11-12 years old. Reason was simple, there were times that I got hungry and got tired of 'maggie mee' instant noodle. So started to cook things that my parents would; sambal ikan bilis, sardines, sambal daging/ayam, ayam goreng kunyit and of course rice. Many failures along the way but as I grew older I ventured into other 'harder' cuisines such as rendang (not rendang tok), nasi tomato and ayam pandan. Most of the recipes were obtained either from my dad or off the internet.

Olio is one my favourite as it is really easy to be prepared. One evening I wanted olio for dinner but ran out of vermicelli/angel hair....I replaced them with some pasta that I got for free couple of months ago. If you are a bachelor(or married) and hungry, you might want to try this! (seriously quicker than waiting for rice to boil!)

cili padi 'spaghetti' olio with chicken (warning bachelor food for bachelors and noobs only)

A piece of chicken breast would do. Cut them into short fingers. Very little fat can be found on chicken breast, healthy +.

4-5 cloves of garlic, 4 bird eyes chillies!! smash them and cut them (or use pastel & mortar). If I'm not mistaken, chillies can help you to increase your metabolic rate....go and wiki it, i'm not sure.

Olive oil obviously for olio. healthy+

Heat-up about 3 table spoon of the oil and chuck those chicken pieces in. Then mill some peppercorn and sprinkle some chilli flakes + paprika powder. Then the garlic + chillies. Stir fry them, it won't take long.

When you are done with that mix them with the 'spaghetti' (as I said I ran out of spaghetti). The spaghetti must have already been tossed and lightly mixed with some olive oil.

Enjoy your bachelor food with sprinkles of  parmesan cheese.

SHE

Nope, I'm not gonna talk about my wife today, but will write down something on SHE or HSE (depending who you work for).

Today I went through a surreal experience. Now I have to apologise, I'm very bad in describing real life experience but what happened today was indeed terrifying...... for some people at least.

I was crossing a street (Jalan Binjai to be exact) near Intercontinental Hotel/Menara Citi heading towards Ampang LRT Station, heading back to my office from a meeting. Normal stuff, I was attempting to cross the street by raising your hand to some of the rude drivers to ensure we (with a colleague) can cross safely. Just when we were done crossing, I heard a sound (maybe) but I definitely saw stones/rubbles/glasses/construction material falling down from the sky!!

Imagine stones/glasses falling from a crane from this building!

The falling items were probably couple of meters away from me, but my body automatically tap on my friends shoulder twice (no voice came out from me) and ran towards the LRT station. She stuttered for a second wondering why I started running but started dashing on the same direction when she saw the falling items as pointed out by my finger.

After we kinda reach a safe spot, we were intrigued on the damage done, we pray nobody was walking underneath the incident area. Adrenaline was still pumping into my body, people started gathering around the scene area, and I tried to get a snapshot of the damage (barely!). I don't think anybody could survive the impact even with full PPE on. According to my boss which I bumped into later after that incident, the crane's cable snap whilst transferring items to the site. Seriously???Somebody is in a lot of trouble....

A red car was split into two according to my boss who was inside the hotel during the incident. The fallen pillage covered almost all of the street's width.

Thank god it wasn't my time nor any of the by-passers. We live another with His consent.

According to an acquittance, the same construction side has also been seen hovering a huge concrete beam over the road dangerously during busy lunch time. It is ironic that for a moment I felt safer being on an offshore producing platform rather than walking along the streets such as this OR driving (don't get me started on this topic, more people die on the roads than offshore).


Tips for the day: be vigilant, LOOK UP and UTAMAKAN KESELAMATAN ANDA (dan orang di persekitaran anda damn it!!)




Worth reading:
http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/cars-crushed-after-crane-snaps-1.44311
http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/crane-falls-36-storeys-smashing-vehicles-1.44540
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2012/2/9/central/20120209173336&sec=central